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...following books will be used in Political Economy I: Thompson's "Protection to Young Industry," Sumner's "Protectionism." The first chapter of the former book will be discussed on Friday...
...narrow limit of his courses. As the two prime reasons for reading are that we may gain information, and at the same time form a style, those reasons ought to be considered in ones choice of reading. Someone has computed that an ordinarily busy man will read one new book every week, and will do this for fifty years. This will give him at the end of his days a sum of 25000 books digested and put behind him. "How immense the importance" adds the at least judiciously selected writer, "that those 25000 should be, if not the great standards...
...almost invariably a a thinker of acumen. There is something in being brought face to face with matured thoughts upon indiscriminate topics which is stimulating to a high degree. We hear again and again the cry that this is an over-read world, and that scholars are degenerating into book-worms. At times some peculiarly independent thinker decries reading as debilitating to the mind, and advocates a little more use of the brains. But these invectives are few and far between, for the growth of reading has become so universal that the habit of reading has become absolutely essential...
Philosophy 3 will begin the study of Logic to-morrow. Professor Royce will not use any text book, but students are advised to do collateral reading in Jurus...
Attention is called to the fact that additions have been made to the list of approved topics in the manuscript book at the library...